common meter, common measure - the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad metrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm 4.
George Washington was elected as president of the constitution convention. He was nominated for the position by Robert Morris of Pennsylvania. George Washington was elected â¦ President of the Constitutional  Convention. He would go on to serve as the country's 1st President.
William McKinley served in the U.S. Congress and as governor of Ohio before running for the presidency in 1896. As a longtime champion of protective tariffs, the Republican McKinley ran on a platform of promoting American prosperity and won a landslide victory over Democrat William Jennings Bryan to become the 25th president of the United States.